The Charge of The Johnston by RG19

Bryce • Historical • posted on Feb 21, 2010

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Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans, Captain of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Johnston DD 557, shouted another heading order from the fantail of his crippled ship. The engineers manually changed the rudder position as the helm control had been lost. Captain Evans was sacrificing his crew and ship to buy time for the escort carriers of the Taffy Task Groups to escape Admiral Takeo Kurita’s formidable battle group. Kurita’s central strike force consisted of 5 battleships, 10 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers and 15 destroyers. On the 25th of October, 1944. The LORD told Gideon, "With these three hundred men I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. Send all the others home." (Judges 7:7) Credits: USS Johnston = USS Fletcher by DeEspona + fantail hatch is cabin door by Ratracer in the Marketplace IJN BB Yamato = Nowa 5 by Silver Wolf Mogami and Tone class heavy cruisers = Nowa 5 by Silver Wolf, NNY and Siosai + 90 degree sci-fi pipe by Joe Kurz + = SDF-1 by mechmaster and Jhoagland + Fletcher class by De Espona + Nakajima A6M-2N floatplane = KI84 by Bazze + speedboat in freesuff TBM "Avenger" bombers by BeyondVR Lost Island by Tantarus

Comments (28)

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Madbat

4:54PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Fantastic looking scene!

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alessimarco

5:05PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Awesome war scene! Fantastically done!

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bazza

5:17PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Great work on this scene it looks fantastic, love the water it is superb!! wonderful Posting!

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SIGMAWORLD

5:47PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Excellent scene and render!

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jclP Online Now!

5:54PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Excellent work

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theprojectionist

6:25PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

One of your best this RG,great scene

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Seaview123

6:42PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Great job on the rendering of the scene. Your water looks great, really convincing. Nice job on the WWII models, too.

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mgtcs

6:57PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

A super composition, marvelous scene, congratulations!

CleonXXI

8:08PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Now there's a fantastic render of an incredible moment in naval history. There's a display of great Native American military heroes in the pentagon, where they mixed up labelling Lt. Cdr. Evan's picture with that of another man. Great work! This would be of the quality of the cover art of those Bantam military history paperbacks of the 70's, if they still published such things.

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Winterclaw

9:22PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Nice image. I remember hearing about this battle on the history channel.

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Steeleyes101

10:09PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

Dam talk bout detail This is one way over the top work of art here Beautiful historic work .... excellent composition Bravo and my hat is off to ya and staying off

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kelvinhughes

10:36PM | Sun, 21 February 2010

excellent

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mapps

6:55AM | Mon, 22 February 2010

very cool, love the water :-)

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Miska7

4:03PM | Mon, 22 February 2010

Great battle scene. Excellent models, effects and lighting! Very nice work.

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kjer_99

11:55PM | Mon, 22 February 2010

Think the others above have about said everything already. This is an exceptional naval action render. Love the water props. Not sure they ever were that close to each other, though, and I may be wrong but I thought the weather was not all that clear that day.

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lior

6:00AM | Tue, 23 February 2010

A real MasterPiece!

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decadence

6:21AM | Tue, 23 February 2010

Fantastic action shot! I like the roll and pitch of the ship.

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mikeerson

12:26PM | Tue, 23 February 2010

this is a love/hate picture.... I LOVE... the angel of the boat being attacked, the background and BG lighting. I hate - well, I don't hate it - lol the boat looks too dark compared to the background as if it is two different pictures.... the explosions in the water seem like a wrong choice on color - perhaps mor like the yellow explosion on the ship would of been a been choice or white with some blue or red. overall cool image.

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Alex_Antonov

9:54PM | Tue, 23 February 2010

Amazing!

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Osper

11:25PM | Tue, 23 February 2010

"Into the valley of the shadow rode the three hundred." To paraphrase another charge. The Japanese lost two cruisers in this battle. Lots of action here!

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